The World You Built

 
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He was a decent man with a wife and kids 
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That's all they can say, I wonder why that is 
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And now they celebrate a life he didnt live 
            Em                                G         A# 
Because the one he really did won't fit their narrative 
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Crocodile tears when it's one of you 
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But only thoughts and prayers for the kids in school 
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And now the president calls for a civil war 
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Before he even knows who or what hes fighting for 
 

 
       Em           G             F#m       Fm   Em 
You're just another victim of the world you built 
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Of people you've infcted with the hate you spit 
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Anothr new statistic as the blood gets spilled 
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You don't care if it happens, you just didn't think it'd happen to you 
A 
Just another victim of the world you built 
   Em 
Of people you've infected with the hate you spit 
 Am 
Another new statistic as the blood gets spilled 
B 
You don't care if it happens, you just didnt think itd happen to you 
 

Interlude 
Em     G A# x4 

 
             Em                   G           A# 
Turn out the firing squad if it's one of them 
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Nail him to the cross by his feet and hands 
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But if hes one of us, we're gonna pray for him 
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'Cause he could still get into Heaven if he's just a troubled kid 
 

 
       Em           G             F#m       Fm   Em 
You're just another victim of the world you built 
                 G                 F#m      Fm  Em 
Of people you've infcted with the hate you spit 
               G             F#m        Fm      Em 
Anothr new statistic as the blood gets spilled 
                     G                 F#m               Fm        Em 
You don't care if it happens, you just didn't think it'd happen to you 
A 
Just another victim of the world you built 
   Em 
Of people you've infected with the hate you spit 
 Am 
Another new statistic as the blood gets spilled 
B 
You don't care if it happens, you just didnt think itd happen to you 
 

 
Em 
Speak violence with a microphone 
Am 
Spread panic and division 'til the dead dog croaks again 
Em 
Blame your problems on the same scapegoats 
Am 
And laugh as all the people who applaud you come for them 
     Bm                 Am       G             F#m    Em 
They say they love you, but they really love a martyr 
And they only want a dead one 
 

Interlude 
Em x4 

 
Em                    B 
Monetized hysteria is never victimless 
     G                                   A 
Even if you thought your culture war was only views and clicks 
       Em                                 B 
'Cause bullets don't discriminate between those you love and those you hate 
    G                                   A 
Sometimes the violence you create comes back to stare you in the face 
 

 
     C                C#m 
He's not the first to pay the price 
   D                D# 
In his own words, a sacrifice 
 

 
Em                             B 
Weaponized intolerance towards everyone you've targeted 
   G                                A 
Despite your own incompetence, it's still the thing that started this 
         Em                                             B 
Ain't it strange which lives they take, which ones they choose to celebrate? 
                   G              A 
Which ones will be televised, and which ones will they try to hide? 
 

 
      C                      C#m 
Which will they mourn? Which will they rewrite? 
      D                        D# 
Which ones will they ignore or tokenize? 
      C                           C#m 
Which ones will they distort, and then discard? 
      D              D# 
Which ones deserve a change of heart? 
    E            D# 
The violence was always there 
B 
This is just the first time you care, ah 
 

Interlude 
Em    G 
F#m   Fm Em 

 
       Em           G             F#m       Fm   Em 
You're just another victim of the world you built 
       Em           G             F#m       Fm   Em 
You're just another victim of the world you built 
       Em           G             F#m       Fm   Em 
You're just another victim of the world you built 
       Em           G             F#m       Fm   Em 
You're just another victim of the world you built 
 

 
       Em           G             F#m       Fm   Em 
You're just another victim of the world you built 
                 G                 F#m      Fm  Em 
Of people you've infcted with the hate you spit 
               G             F#m        Fm      Em 
Anothr new statistic as the blood gets spilled 
                     G                 F#m               Fm        Em 
You don't care if it happens, you just didn't think it'd happen to you 
 

Outro 
Em 
They want you to laugh when your enemy dies 
     B 
They want you afraid, disillusioned, sick and radicalized 
          G 
When they come for you, they want you tired and weak 
   A 
If they can keep you divided, then they can keep you deceived 
B         A              G             F#m      Em 
Everybody knows the only good one is a dead one